Henwood v Harrison

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1865
Year1865
CourtCourt of Common Pleas
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22 cases
  • Steve Morgan CBE v Associated Newspapers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 6 July 2018
    ...was defamatory (at p.250): “Ever since Merivale v Carson (1887) 20 QBD 275 the doctrine laid down by Sir James Shaw Willes (see Henwood v Harrison (1872) LR 7 CP 606) that fair comment is a branch of the doctrine of privileged occasion, under which the publication is protected if the judge ......
  • Robson v Robson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 2010
    ...question one must begin with the reason for the defence. It is rooted in public policy. "The most valuable judgment of Willes J." in Henwood v Harrison (1872) L.R. 7 C.P. 606, 662, cited with approval by Lord Shaw of Dunfermline in Adams v Ward at page 349, gathered the earlier decisions t......
  • Sutherland v Stopes
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 21 November 1924
    ...29 In this passage Lord Collins followed on the lines laid down in the judgment of the Court in ( Henwood v. Harrison 1872, Law Reports, 7 Common Pleas, 606). The judgment of the majority of the Court (Willes, J., Byles, J., and Brett, J.) was delivered by Willes, J. (Sir James Shaw Willes)......
  • Channel Seven Adelaide Pty Ltd v Manock
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 13 December 2007
    ...Deane, Dawson, Toohey and Gaudron JJ. 169 Bellino v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1996) 185 CLR 183 at 191; Henwood v Harrison (1872) LR 7 CP 606 at 170 Falcke v The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd [1925] VLR 56 at 69 –75; Bickel v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd [1981] 2 NSWLR 474 at 487, 498. ......
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